malkie wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 2:54 am
MG 2.0 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 2:34 am
It does.
I guess I figured those on this forum would realize the balanced composition of the NIV and would accept that at face value rather than going all nit picky.
Regards,
MG
Typical deflection - call someone a nit-picker, and then you don't have to engage with what they actually said, or take any responsibility for your failure to be upfront about what you were doing, which was using a non-church approved version of scriptures because it helped your case.
Why would you expect the regular members of the forum to be familiar with a website like
Faith is Founded on Fact? Would you expect members of the church to be familiar with the website, since it is not a source of information that is approved by the church?
And since you seem to quote them approvingly, should we accept what they have to say about other things, or are you only using a selective quotation that supports your PoV, while ignoring other ideas that they hold to be "founded on fact"?
by the way, does the LDS church "realize the balanced composition of the NIV and would accept that at face value"?
It’s interesting that this is evolving into a he said/she said argument on Bible translations. I show that a reputable translation of the Bible translates James 1:5 in a way that supports an alternate view which demolishes the heretofore limited interpretation of fundamentalist critics and you folks go ballistic.
Crazy stuff.
But then as I mentioned to one poster an alternate translation serves to repudiate the worldview that those in this forum have that God is under some kind of determinate obligation to answer ALL questions at any given moment when a question is asked. Throw out the whole line upon line, precept upon precept doctrine of communication from God.
https://rsc.BYU.edu/king-james-Bible-re ... anslations
Biblicists in the church and others are free to ‘study it out for themselves’. We are not under the same limitations as fundamentalist critics.
Members all over the world use various Bible translations.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/pag ... s?lang=eng
I presented the NIV because…as the page I linked to describes…it takes a more balanced approach to translation. Who can argue with that? Oh yes, fundamentalist critics hellbent on promoting a worldview of their owm making.
Sorry to be so harsh, but sometimes you folks crack me up with your dogmatic views in regards to subject matters that you don’t even believe in.
How rich.
James 1:5 (NIV)
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
Generously =more
Not all.
Regards,
MG